William McCullough

William "Bucky" McCullough (1949-16 October 1981) was an Ulster Defense Association leader who was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the West Belfast Brigade and the father of C Company leader Alan McCullough. He was killed by the INLA in 1981.

Biography
William McCullough was born on Shankill Road in Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland in 1949, and he joined the Ulster Defense Association when it was founded in 1971. He was involved with killings and bomb attacks during The Troubles, and he was a close ally of Charles Harding Smith. He would become involved with racketeering alongside James Craig, but he decided to tell Ulster Freedom Fighters leader John McMichael of Craig's racketeering when he discovered that Craig was enriching himself and not the Ulster unionist cause. Craig made contact with his friends in the Irish National Liberation Army and had them assassinate McCullough, and a gunman on a motorcycle gunned McCullough down as he entered his car at his home to drive his daughter to school. His son Alan McCullough, another unionist leader, would meet a similar fate in 2003.